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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-05-07


members OF the association giving the results of
their observation OF the management OF ths
schools.
THE NORTHWEST.
Mr.. Thomas Somervflle, referring to the report
OF DR.. LoveJoy, said that the statement that the
northwest section paid 70 per cent OF the taxea
showed a rather unusual state OF affairs He
would like TO know what territory was meant by
the term northwest section
DIR. LOveJOy said that II was all that portion on
the city west OF North Capitol street and north az
due west line from the Capitol, including Wass
Mr.. Someryille said he thought that e was q
very large percentage OF the total taxes
Prof Richards said that while this section bore
that percentage OF the profit OF the 6usineas that
was done in the city, because most Of the OQstpens
was centered In this section He thought that Ga
portion OF the improvements based upOp tina N.
centage. He said that In the cOnsaderataon OF
matters coming before the association the inter-
ests OF all sections ought TO be considered and
that among al the associations there should be
common interest, the strong being, ready 60 as
Dr. Lovejoy said that the statistics showed Chat
this section was entitled TO the lions share or the
Improvements and besides IL neededit The facf .
was centered in this part OF the city WAS only an
additiohA argument as the more business and
the more travel on the streets the moreEepain
were needed. He thought that this Hctto0 ought
70 see TO It that it gets Its fair proportion q the
money expended for street improvements ME
section for the present yssf vas IN psopoa@ .
DR.. Iosejoy said that he presumed nos q shis
unless the Appropriation OF %, 600 Was counted.
HAS rM SHARE
Mr.. Bond said that he thought this section prob
ably got its proportion OF the improvements
DR.. LoveJoy observed that there might be some
exception to creditine. the amount 70 be expna-
ed on New jersey avenue 70 THIS section, f0 Tie
reason that 1t WAS not 0ooooo there.
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VrOR RENT-IN ANACOSTIA-ONE LARGE Me-
i House. with ID acres ground, near Pencote Grow,
100 per year.
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Go to tie Cooper Union Rally tonight.
LAST NIGHT AT IRVING HALL

It looked as if Irving Hall was still in ex-
istence.
There were fully 1000 persons in the hall,
and how they cheered for Nicoll.
Say" said Nicholas Haughton, does this
look as we were shadows? Well, I guess
not"
The convention was much larger than the
one that nominated Edward Cooper for Mayor
in 1878.
The delegates from the Sixteenth Assembly
District sat together. They are fine look
ing men," remarked Commodore Tooker.
The Fourth, Sixth, Ninth, Twelfth, Twen-
tieth and Twenty second Assembly District
delegations came in a body headed by drum
corps.
"Why," remarked ex-Deputy Sheriff James
Fay, we are with the people this year. We
are not tied to Tammany Hall or the County
Democracy"
Edward Hovey, one of the Young members
Of the Third Assembly District organization,
said: MIR. Nicoll win have II, 256 more votes
than Fellows. I have 1t down fine"
The following Irving Hallites were. not
present: AQueduct Commissioner Ridgway,
City Court Judge Ehrlich, ex-senator Cor
nell and ex-Assemblyman Peter F. Murray.
Ex-County Clerk William A. Butler was
present. He ran for reelection in 1882 on o
citizens ticket and without Republican sup
port. He polled just 81, 900 votes. John ].
O'Brien was the Machine Republican candi-
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be %infringed. "They can't enjoin me from
using this tank" said Col. Miles to-day,
with scorn. "They have no patent for 1t,
though they may say they have. They've
put in an application for one, but even when
they get it. 1t won't hold. You know you
can patent the hat you wear, or the
stick you carry, but that doesn't fol
low that the patent will hold. In
production of The Seige Of Tripoli,' and
twenty years ago I used q tank when I gave
The Cataract Of the Ganges' in Boston. So
you see it's no novelty. The tank I intend
this Dark Secret affair was thought Of" It
is rumored that Col. Miles intends to serve
papers upon the Dark Secret managers,
turning the tables on them, and enjoining
them from using their tank.
Miss Mary Anderson's tour through the
country is rapidly being booked by the ever
enterprising Henry E. Abbey. Dates have
been secured as far ahead as April. 1889. Miss
portant star in the dramatic. armament next
season. Her only rival will be Coquelin, and
he Is certainly too gallant to consider himself
as such. Coquelin, Anderson and possibly
Wilson Barrett are the only big " attrao-
tions in sight at present.
The sketch of Editha's Burglar " which
is announced at the Princess Theatre, Lon
don, will be done there without the sanction
q the Lyceum management in this city. w.
terms and Immediately afterwards announced
the production Of Editha's Burglar +"
though he made no arrangement for legiti-
mately securing the sketch. II Is thought
Of this dainty, little play and sent
1t to Mr.. Kelly, who claims to be a repre-
| sentative American manager in London, and
with whom Messrs. Mallory and Palmer have
entered into business Arrangements. In the
meantime the Lyceum management are try
ing very hard to discover the nam of the
person who sent "Editha's Burglar" to
London. If they succeed. they declare that
it will be published.
Theatre, will produce +" Fascinationh at the
| Fourteenth Street Theatre next season for q
seven weeks run, with Miss Cora Tanner,
surrounded by q strong cast. The play was
sS ivsRR s sSe Sns tS ESst co.. IL ssfiD Da sninG Nth h 50 e
warranted in deliberately staging it for a New
York run. Col. Slim also controls "Alone in
London" which has been touring the coun-
try for three seasons. It will also be booked
for next year.
1.-THE Wife," which opens on Tuesday
night at the Lyceum Theatre, will be q splen-
did vehicle for the costumers' art. Seventeen
Mrs. Georgia Cayyan, Miss Henderson, Miss
Dillon and Mrs. Walcott. A summer costume
for Newport. an evening dress for New York
and O winter dress for Washington will be in
view.
A farewell supper will be given to Ed ~
Sothern by q number of his friend tomorrow
night, when he leaves the Lyceum Theatre
for an extended tour. On Saturday he will
| depart for Washington with The Highest
| Bidder" Company and Charles Frohman.
| Mr.. Sothern will return to New York and the
| Lyceum next May.
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what. the smooth surface Of the sea began to
glitter with little ripples, our spirit rose with
the prospect and soon after . o'clock we
bow-the only thing in sight on the broad
expanse of blue, shining ocean. By noon we
had approached the stranger near enough to
see that she was o brigantine under short sail,
and in q little while we were within hailing
distance. Taking the glass l made her out to
be a smart-looking and beautifully modelled
craft, and after q few minutes I read the
name in gilt letters on her quarter as Emily
Brand" Except her jib and q staysail she
she impressed me with q sense of death-ike
stiffness, desolation and mystery, and l could
see that her wheel was loose and that there
was NO one on he5 deck; Inc slight Preeze
the b~rigantine was on the starboard tack.
while the yacht, as she had been for several
days, was on the port tack.
handed the glass to Drayton, who after q
short survey, told Capt. Parker to hail. The
captain, as we neared her, called repeatedly
in stentorian tones, but no answer came n
no sign Of life appeared on board the strange
vessel. Finally, when within about three
q boat lowered away and Drayton and I, with
the FIRST mate of the Nomad and two seamen,
rowed alongside. Slowly drifting to leeward,
she was barely moving, and Jameson, the
bowsprit. He threw US a line, and making
him. He and the two men went for
ware, while Drayton and I crossing
the deck Il the companionway,
which we found open, entered the cabin.
II was empty. The men forward likewise
finding no one we all five searched the YES
sci fore and aft, and high and low. There
was not q living being besides ourselves on
board. She had evidently been deserted.
But whyP She was seemingly perfectly
sound, and We failed to discover the least
apparent cause for her abandonment. Her
hold was exceptionally dry, there not being
as much bilge in it as would fill o h~ogshead.
Her cargo consisted Of casks marked as con-
tanning alcohol, all Of which were slowed lin
good order and condition" except one
which had been started. The exterior of
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berth, we found an open box containing
panes of glass packed in hay and ~unbroken.
Hanging on the partition opposite the berth;
q cutlass Of somewhat ancient pattern, which,
on extracting II from its scabbard, l discov-
cred to be stained with h seemed to me to
be blood: called Drayton's attention TO
me and concluded that we had perhaps found
q clue to the mystery; Later along we
discovered marks on the main rail, appar-
emily of blood, but by that time We had been
doTee S;o 70 9 gave o up b snS ap tSs sG Tsss see re mao tSa p %snl
feet order in which We found everything on
board. The remaining articles Of furniture
in the cabin were two large easy chairs up
holstered in leather, and and several smaller,
lighter chairs The carpet was o heavy Brus-
sells, and the woodwork was painted a pale,
soft gray, with blush trimmings. All the
brass ~mountings and the lamps were bright
and shining, and, in fact, the apartment was
Of mystery. 1t was clear that it had been
occupied in part by q woman and child, n
these we naturally supposed to be the wife
and child of the captain.
Our charts showed that we had boarded
the derelict in latitude 38. 20 north. longitude
Ill 3 west. In its proper place we found her
log-book, but her c~hronometer, manifest
and bills of lading were missing. The log
showed that the last days work Of the vessel
had been on Nov. "A. sea time, when the
weather allowed an observation TO be taken
that placed her in latitude SO. SO north, longi-
tude q. 20 west. The entries on her slate-lo9
were, however, carried down to 8 O'Clock of
the morning Of the 25th, at which hour she
had passed from west to east to the north Of
the island of st. Mary's (Azores), the eastern
point of which then bore south southwest,
six miles distant. The distance in longi-
tude from the island Of st. Mary's to the
point at which we fell in with the Emily
Brand is ,7.64, the corrected distance Of
the latitude from the position last indi-
antine had apparently held on her course for
ten days after the 26th of November, the
wheel being loose all the time. But during
the period from the 25th Of November to the
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AS OTHERS SEE US.
Contemporaries Continue to Comment on the
Success Of the Evening World.

Contemporaries Continue to Comment on the
Success Of the Evening World.
TFEom the Schenectady Union.l
The success of the New York EVENING WORLD Ia
truly wonderful.
IRON the Corsioana (TeS.) Cour1er.1
The New York EVENING WORLD is a new VEN
ture IN the journalistic field, and with the charac-
teristic energy Of THE WORLD proprietor will be
pushed to a paying success. The sheet is bright,
newsy and cleanly, and presents a neater appear
ance than any Of the metropolitan evening papers,
and we know them all. We wish It o large field
and unlimited success.
tFrom the Pitts6urg Lioht.l
THE EVENING WORLD, Of New York, comes out
as a new proof Of the enterprise and energies Of
the publishers. 1t is q new idea in the field Of
daily papers, and is creating a sensation among
the staid old papers Of New York, and stirring up
the metropolis in a vigorous manner in it's new
departure. 1t must prove a success and no one
can tell what new idea win come to newspaperdom
from this venture.
From the RenViek (Ta.) Times.l
The New York EVENING WORLD, the new one
cent daily, is achieving marvellous success. Its
very first edition reached q circulation OF III, 40
copies. Az a news gatherer and for the vigor of
Its editorial utterances H WORLD has few rivals.
Nominally Democratic, its lance of criticism ia
thrust as unsparingly into the shams Of its own
party as the Republican. 1t IL handsomely printed,
the Illustrations are plentiful and the range of
general matter Ia Of the best.
The evening world., 1887-10-28
1T HAD INDIA-RUBBER SEAMS.
A Coat that Big Tom CostiGan Would Not
Rip Up the Back.

A Coat that Big Tom Costisan Would Not
Rip Up the Back.
Tom Costigan's daily walk abroad led him
through the mazes Of Baxter street this morning.
George Lyons was with him. Az the two men
wandered through the swaying rows Of beautiful
trousers and rainbow-lined overcoats the pullers-
n gazed at TOMS bulk in despair. Eight Of them
with a full supply Of ropes and tackle couldn't
He is nearly as tall as Commissions Tom Bren-
nan, and since he began to grow fatter than ever
editing the Guy Record he weighs q trine more than
AIS pounds.
Little George tripped airily at his elbow like q
modern Jack the Giant Killer leading q particu-
larly Blunderborean Blunderbore into camp. The
Mr.. Costigan and made him, II possible, q trine
this sign in 9 window: Great Mems Suits: All
40 in and split the biggest they've got, ~ said
George to Tom. The corporeal reverberations Of
the great mans laugh made the earth rumble, and
he slapped his thigh with O mighty whack and said:
I'm 60 you"
The clothing artist was ratified for a moment,
but but for GGS only 2 sn mSmsnt Ion ne , handed rsa,i aST aro a coat AZ
He and Tom strove with II for nve minutes, and
triumpsa Eliy buttons sr' around him. He innsted
his neither chest and bulged his shoulders, hoping
to see the coat ny apart In shreds. He was horrf-
skin. He tried again. The coat held its own.
"How's this ?" he ~faltered, in q detected way
to the salesman.
with q grin Of triumph. TITS a special article for
stout gentlemen. The seams ain'd sewed together;
they're cemented tight on strong rubber. The
coat Will wear you o lifetime"
Tom couldn't back out. He paid for the suit, and
then looked around for George Lyons. The slim
price of the clothes. He says that 1t was q put-up
lob.
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the hull above the water line did not eI-
hibit the slightest trace of damage. nor was
there the least evidence on the interior
or was at hat time in need of any repairs.
We were substantially satisfied from our
own experience of the neighboring seas for
the previous ten days that the brigantine
could not have encountered any seriously
found the decks, masts and spars in excel
lent trim. Indeed, even the pitch in the
waterways was intact, which could not
have been the case had any bad weather
house, constructed, Of thin planking and six
feet in height above the deck, was also in
perfect condition, there not being Q crack In
the planking nor even in the paint. The
seamen's chests and the clothing which were
sound on board were perfectly dry, some
razors even being entirely free from rust.
Among the seamen's effects were found q
number of articles of not uncomfortable
value, going to show that the men were com
paratively well-to-do and apparently in a
great measure free from the too common
p~rodigGlitv of their class. We also found
that the vessel was amply provisioned and
that she had plenty Of good water in her
casks.
OF her cabin I must say that I had no idea
there was q merchantmen afioat so comfort
ably and.attractively.eq equipped in this respect:
The apartment was large, high and well
lighted, with four staterooms opening from
1.-TWO forward and two aft. On. either side
along the hunks were broad, thick hair cush-
ions of crimson stuff. In the centre the table
with leaves was stationary, while in the space
between the staterooms forward was q har-
monium, open, and aft, in the corresponding
space, stood a sewing-machine, also uncov-
cred. On q chair beside the harmonium lay
several music books and loose sheets Of
music, and on the sewing-machine we found
q pattern in muslin, evidently q child's gar
ment in process Of making, besides q small
vial Of machine oil, q spool Of cotton and q
tion-a fact which afforded additional proof
that the vessel could not have encountered
any stress of weather-not even enough, in
deed deed TO to upset dt these neI lightly s balanced dart articles les
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failed to shout, "Hallo there n as I got sight
of him. He neither answeredn nor hesitated;
he did not even look towards me, but, almoBt
as l uttered the words, disappeared, a. II have
said, down the com~panion-way. hurried
aft and entered the cabin. There, alone, with
his feet IN O chair before him and the log
book on his knees. was Drayton, quite calm,
and half facing the companion-w way. Hooked
around, saw no one Gall the stateroom doors
were wide open) and exclaimed In amaze
ment; Where is he ?"
Where is who ?" drawled Drayton.
1.-THE fellow" I replied, who Just came.
in here. Wake up, Jack! saw the man
come in here this moment. He is here some
where" l added, searching from room to
room in vain and trying TO open q door in the
supposed, into the b~etween-decks space. Tho
door was fast, and boltsd on my Gde OF he
No one had gone through there.
I turned back to the cabin where my COM
panion stood gazing at me curiously. He
stepped towards me, looked ~ me very
closely, and said then sharply:
What's the matter with you. old mnn =
Are you out of your mind How could any
one have come in here without my seeing
him 2"
described the man and added that I could
swear I had seen him enter the cabin three
seconds before me.
Finally, somewhat impressed by my POSI-
tiveness, Drayton, in spite Of himself, went
on deck, I following, and hailing the yacht
he called out, " Let the men, when the boat
comes over, bring the dog with them" And
then to me, "f there il any one on
board here Roy will find him, though .
can't"
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date and Patrick Keenan, the Union Demo
cratic nominee. Keenan, was elected, but
where would he have been II the Republicans
had Endorsed Butler2
The. Fourth Assembly District delegates
had the largest turnout, They had ths
the other delegations received them with
great applause.
There Ia no use talking" exclaimed Oscar
II. Bogart, of the Eighth Assembly District.
".Nicoll and MARITIME have the people with
them. In my opinion Col. Fellows will be
third in the race"
"Nicoll will get 9s, 900 votes" said ex-
Assemblyman Joseph P: M~cDonough. and
how can he DO beaten in q three. cornered
fght2 Why, 10000 Republicans and ut
least q, 900 Democrats will vote for him. 1t
is the Hackett ticket of 1875 over again"
Lawyer John Stacom had a front seat. He
Is running for Civil Justice in the Second
District against Justice Charles NJ. Clancy.
My platform is this" said Stecom, CLANCY
has served twelve years and has drawn
$40, 900 from the city treasury. / Just want
a chance for six years and $s6, 900. ! am not
q boy"
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~lescent, when. on the morning of Nov. 20, I
found among my. letters at breakfast one
from my old friend, Jack Drayton, dated two
DAYS earlier "On Board the Nomad, Mar
cruise to the Azores WITH him. His fellow
voyagers, he wrote, had deserted him at
Malta to go crusading to Jerusalem with
some friends they had met there, and he
we'll ON account of my health as OF his ac-
count.
I called on my doctor, who agreed with
Drayton that the voyage would, set me
nothing 1 would like better 1 decided to go.
1 packed my trunks, took the early train for
Marseilles and boarded the yacht on the
afternoon of the next day at 3 o'clock, and
by 8 the following morning we were under
way.
The Nomad was a schooner of $50 tons,
stanchly built for ocean cruising and lux
uriously equipped and furnished. Besides
the captain, two mates, steward, cook and
Jack Drayton's servant, she carried q crew Of
seventeen men, Her owner was himself an
I" able seaman, I" and his yacht was his home.
He and / were such old friends and had lived
together for SO many years that we not only
did not fear firing of each other. but were
reasonably sure of very good company. On
this occasion, however, we had a companion
in Roy, a Thoroughbred English mastif that
Drayton, b was very fond OF animals, had
taken TO sea with him for the two preceding
years. I never had appreciated before this
cruise how much Of a companion q dog conld
be. Roy quite won my heart. Unprejudiced
by my affection for him. l think he was the
noblest animal / have ever known. Stately,
high-bred, intelligent and loyable, he was
ga gentleman and o scholar y from the jet
of his handsome muzzle to the tip OF his
/ tawny tail.
We ran down the Mediterranean to the
straits with o fair, fast wind, feeling as we
passed the fortress that we were we'll started
on our voyage. But outside on the ocean
bestowed his favors elsewhere. From that
time ON until the 9th of December. we
loitered sadly and u~neventfully,. with Light
northerly winds. On the morning OF that
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less from the north continually, and Il ap-
peared to us impossible that the derelict
could have covered within that time q dis
lance of 7.54 east, at any rate on the star
board tack. The obvious inference was,
therefore, that she had not been abandoned
until several days after the last entry made
in the log. Be that as it may. we were, at the
conclusion of our investigation early in the
vaguest conjecture or theory as to the cause
of desertion OF the ships company-presum-
ing hem TO have left in her missing boats
or to speculate with any reasonableness upon
the extraordinary series of facts that have
related.
Theorizing thus being idle. Drayton who
was nothing il not practical when occasion
required, at once set about making his
arrangements to work our prize 10 Gibraltar.
He despatched the mate and the two men
back TO the yacht with orders to have Parker
select Ave men from the crew, and to be in
authority as sailing master, n send them
aboard the brigantine prepared to take up
their quarters; Meanwhile he returned to
the cabin to look over the log-book again,
and some papers We had found in the cap
tain's room, and i went forward to poke
about in the seamen's quarters which were to
be occupied by the Nomnd's men.
Fifteen minutes later, standing by the
foremost facing aft, I struck a match to
light my cigar, As l raised my eyes from
doing 80, / distinctly saw o man step from
the rail at the port quarter. move quickly
across the deck and disappear in the com
panion- At the moment ! caught but
but they were not TO be forgotten. He
seemed to have clambered aboard from the
sea, for he was dripping wet and hatless,
and his light hair was matted or glued
about his head and face by the water, while
his clothes chung to his body and limbs and
glistened and dripped In the sunlight. His
figure was gigantic, His face and trunk
were bloated, or d~istended, like those of q
man who had been drowned, and the former
without q vestige Of color. was CHASTITY, hor-
beyond the possibility of description. I was
naturally startled and shocked by the sud
denness of his appearance and his extraordt.
nary condition; but not 20 much 20 that !